New crowdfunding campaign funding science just dropped! Spread it, share it, donate! experiment.com/projects/rea...

A #DinoConUK-themed article and podcast from @chasmosaurs.bsky.social, yay! chasmosaurs.com/2025/09/23/p...

They finally found a cure for neurotypicality then? About time them poor sods got some help.

Here it is! Our long awaited briefing on the very first DinoCon! Was it a worthy successor to TetZooCon? (yes) Find out here! #DinoCon2025 @dinoconuk.bsky.social

Nobody: Media: Was it a trans person? Are you sure it wasn't a trans person? Seriously, it was a trans person, right? But surely he was dating a trans person? Maybe his neighbour's second cousin's goldfishes' nephew was a trans person? It was a trans person, everybody. Somehow.

Sorry I can't come to work today, it's too cold for molecules to move.

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

It's a song about the good folks. You know who you are.

Here’s a fantastic blog post about the Reichardt Kakao cards, from our friends at @chasmosaurs.bsky.social chasmosaurs.com/2023/11/28/v... 2/2

Nobody gets mad when clownfish change their gender. You shouldn't get mad when people do it.

It's a misty day in Massachusetts in the summer of 2025, and I'm tackling my very first true-blue all-American roller coaster amuseument park! I've been to some of the former Six Flags parks in Europe, but this is my first taste of the brand in its land of birth. Big thread!

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

And that's the first ever #DinoConUK the bag! Did you go? Did you enjoy it? How much swag did you get? Expect our thoughts in podcast form soon! (And thanks to Sara for taking the picture)

I'm at the end of my roller coaster season for 2025! And look at this, my count has come riiiiight up to 199! What should my 200th roller coaster be?

Another museum? Another museum. Featuring mastodons, moas, plateosaurs and, of course, Plasterosarus himself.

¡Hola! ¡Gemma's been to a museum in Spain! ¿Did we enjoy all the animals and mounted skeletons? ¿Is there anything we can learn from the MNCN? ¿And is Gemma going to do the Spanish interpunction thing all the way through? (yes)

To be clear on what they're proposing: human beings using water for drinking, washing, and growing crops will be rationed. The AI datacenters will have all the water they can contaminate.

If you haven't seen these Marie Hubrecht palaeontology murals before — do.

Welcome back to Love in the Time of crinoids and brachipods! We're going to look at some more murals by our heroine Marie Hubrecht, but that does mean we're going to leave Dinosaur World behind and move into Deep Time...

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Birds are such a strange kind of dinosaur, we would be astonished by them if they weren't around us all the time. Goblin-like puppeteers behind a screen of feathers, as described by Gary W. Kaiser in his book The Inner Bird.

This is the first thread (very much inspired by Darren’s for Prehistoric Planet) I’ll be doing about Walking with Dinosaurs! The series is now out in most territories, and so I thought it would be nice to do a deeper dive into some of the parts I had a hand in. (1/50)

Good to see criticism of Colossal and their fraudulent "de-extinction" process getting mainstream coverage. New Zealand has some amazing conservation successes but the fight to save its species is not over. Think what that $15 million might have done there, rather than making this Frankenstein bird.

A fair, solid review of #WWD2025. It faithfully points out the show's drawbacks but doesn't tear it apart because of that, and it fully recognises the good/great stuff that often gets overlooked amidst the strife. I really advise you to have a listen even if you disagree with most of the views!

We're talking Walking with Dinosaurs! This series has turned out pretty divisive, but what do your humble LITC podcasters think? And crucially, what do Andrew's children think? Thanks to @dinodadreviews.bsky.social for being on the show!

We're talking Walking with Dinosaurs! This series has turned out pretty divisive, but what do your humble LITC podcasters think? And crucially, what do Andrew's children think? Thanks to @dinodadreviews.bsky.social for being on the show!

The new Walking with Dinosaurs describes a baby Triceratops as "the perfect supper" for a T-Rex. So not only is the T-Rex the most fearsome predator ever to walk the earth, he's also a Tory.

Before going to Madrid, some of my friends said "I bet you're just going cause there's a theme park there". Of all the indignities! How dare they think that of me? Madrid has TWO theme parks, I'll have you know! Big thread! 🧵

It's time to visit a park that's been on my wishlist since forever: Parque Warner Madrid! Located on the Spanish steppes a 40 minute bus ride from central Madrid, it's a place full of potential... for a great time, or a great disappointment? HUGE thread 🧵

We're back at Walibi Holland, the park everybody loves to hate! This day (23/05/25), I just loved it. I grew up with this place as much as the Efteling, and while the Efteling gets all the glamour, Walibi is where I learned to ride. Big thread! 🧵

New podcast dropped! Episode 41 is a bittersweet one as we dive deep into the amazing work of Jan Sovák, the great Czech artist who passed away last month.

New podcast dropped! Episode 41 is a bittersweet one as we dive deep into the amazing work of Jan Sovák, the great Czech artist who passed away last month.

New #paleoart posted to #Patreon for #FossilFriday: #sauropod Atlasaurus walks through glowing phytoplankton on a pleasant Jurassic evening. The hi-res painting, WIPs and scientific rationale for the scene can be found here: www.patreon.com/posts/129695... #sciart

The RFK Jr. version of health, where health creates health and healthy people don't get sick and the thing that keeps you healthy is /living the right way/ is very seductive to a lot of people. It also places the burden of illness back on the ill, which decreases the value of human life.

I must admit, I was hoping for something else for Paultons Park first larger coaster. They couldn't have gone with a more run off the mill option. It was so obvious, like painting a red door red.

Stop calling A.I. slop “art” and real human-created works “content”

The AI video they share in this is vile shit. Especially frustrated that the ILM guy makes note that this tech should only be used with permission from "the talent" by which he means actors likenesses. Not the artist talent that was stolen without permission to build the training sets they use.

It's podcast time! In episode 40, we interview @markwitton.bsky.social about his new book on T. rex, and find some Danish delights from the 1950s!

It's podcast time! In episode 40, we interview @markwitton.bsky.social about his new book on T. rex, and find some Danish delights from the 1950s!

With regards to Falcon's Flight, I'll repeat what I've said elsewhere. Every time Intamin breaks a record, God flips a coin... and they're breaking three. I give it a 1 in 8 chance of success.

This ride, that I've become rather attatched to over years of working there, is on its last legs. I can't say I'm too surprised, considering how unreliable and low-capacity it's always been, but there was a charm to it, wasn't there? #toverland #maximusblitzbahn

This article is so important. AI will *always* make mistakes. The best and newest LLMs are even hallucinating more than before. People are using these tools for serious decisions and may not always notice the mistake. 🚨AI does not "know" or "understand" ANYTHING!🚨 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing

I was asked to post a raptor. Not quite its natural environment but what can you do. She posed beautifully for me.

I've been an animal nerd for all my life, and still every so often one pops up that makes me go "What?!?"

In blue are the theme parks I've been to, in red the ones I want to go. (I've been to two in California but that would stretch out the map a bit)

With the trailers for both #WalkingWithDinosaurs and #JurassicWorld Rebirth apparently showing swimming Spinosaurus, I thought it might be time to go over why I think these animals were not good swimmers. After all, it's something I've written a fair bit about (with @arctomet.bsky.social) 1/many

My latest music video for an original song: She Knows Who She Is. The words started flowing when I came up with the idea of writing a love song for a future self.

Excellent, excellent news.